Abhishek Reddy — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 08:04:26 +0000

I used to use it a lot in Firefox. On other sites, mostly to make text readable or to fix bugs. Online books and many low-budget sites go for the totally unstyled "document" look (default font styles etc, but with increasingly sensible semantic markup these days). Among other things, it kills small text with superb ease.

I did give it a shot as a development tool as well. Was handy for debugging and playing with sites that were posted on TWF with a question. The Web Dev extension's UI was no good though, and I'm pretty sure it had a bunch of bugs that weren't fixed across a few releases. Although, the problem could also have been with Firefox itself as other bits were causing grief too, leading me to shift away almost entirely.

As far as I know, Konqueror doesn't have this level of functionality with its user stylesheets. I've been looking for a way to do it, with no luck. Now I'm toying with the idea of writing a hacky script or plugin somehow.

Greg K — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 06:19:00 +0000

As my design and layout skills royally suck, I'd be glad to hear from visotrs their layouts tha they think are better

As for disabling advertisements, I do that on some sites with firefox by right clicking on the image, and choose BLOCK IMAGES FROM (web server) as the ads are ususally on a different server, (like at cnn.com)

I do love in the webdeveloper toolbar (sure you can do it elsewhere), the ability to DISABLE ALL stylesheets for some myspace sites, some are just not compatable with firefox (ie. scrolling text is on a layer OVER the main content, not allowing you to click on the link on the main contents.

I do like for playing around purposes, in webdeveloper toolbar, to be able to view the CSS file, and actively alter it's settings and see the result sriht away, good way for me to learn.

-Greg

demonhale — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 05:46:38 +0000

Thats a kewl opera feature... it has come to mind sometimes to make a different theme for a site... like TWF... color options, etc, some fancy stuff for fun...

waffles — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:06:05 +0000

I'd still want to design it well. They have to see my site the first time, dont' they? It does give some hope for people who don't design as well because they can have it "fixed" by the user.

Megan — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:14:14 +0000

Sidenote: to do this in Opera, design your custom stylesheet and save it on your computer. Important - because Opera currently overrides the user stylsheet with the Author stylesheet, you need add !important to your CSS to get it to override the default. I've asked them to change this behaviour.

Back in the browser, right click and choose "Edit Site Preferences". From the display tab, enter the CSS file you just saved in the "My Style Sheet" field. Now, from the magnifying glass pop-down, use the mode drop-down to select "Manage Modes", make sure page stylesheet and user stylesheet are both selected under "Author Mode".